{"id":13,"date":"2010-06-23T07:21:09","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T11:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benoist.ca\/news\/\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2021-11-09T16:46:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T16:46:38","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/benoist.ca\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Frank Benoist<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"170\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/benoist.ca\/?attachment_id=170\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/benoist.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Frank_Benoist_edited-214x300-1.jpg?fit=214%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"214,300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Frank_Benoist_edited-214&#215;300\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/benoist.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Frank_Benoist_edited-214x300-1.jpg?fit=214%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/benoist.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Frank_Benoist_edited-214x300-1.jpg?fit=214%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-170 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/benoist.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Frank_Benoist_edited-214x300-1-214x300.jpg?resize=214%2C300\" alt=\"Frank_Benoist_edited-214x300\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; Born Dec 31-1884 in Nelson BC and died on May 16, 1965, in Montreal QC<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><br><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"173\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/benoist.ca\/?attachment_id=173\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/benoist.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Nella_Benoist-214x300-1.jpg?fit=214%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"214,300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Nella_Benoist-214&#215;300\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/benoist.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Nella_Benoist-214x300-1.jpg?fit=214%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/benoist.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Nella_Benoist-214x300-1.jpg?fit=214%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-173 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/benoist.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Nella_Benoist-214x300-1-214x300.jpg?resize=214%2C300\" alt=\"Nella_Benoist-214x300\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Nella Anne Bowen<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; Born Nov 16, 1915, in China and died on June 14, 1984, in Toronto ON<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Frank was a Government Official working in China, and met Nella Bowen in Hong Kong who was at that time working as a Travel Guide. They got married in Hong Kong around 1935 they had 3 Sons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Charles&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/strong>&nbsp;born on Jan 31, 1936, in&nbsp;<a title=\"Shanghai\" href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shanghai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shanghai<\/a>, &nbsp;China<\/li><li><strong><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Franklin<\/span><\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;born on May 19, 1940, in&nbsp;<a title=\"Kowloon\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kowloon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kowloon<\/a>, Hong Kong<\/li><li><strong><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Victor&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/strong>&nbsp;born on Sept 12, 1944, in Montreal QC Ontario<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>During the war Japan invaded China there were many deaths and it was very hard to get food or supplies due to the fact that Frank was a Canadian Offical the Red Cross helped them return to Canada with Frank\u2019s older Daughter Louise Born Feb 02 1922 from a previous marriage and their 2 sons young Charles and Franklin they arrived in Montreal around 1943.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nella and Frank bought an income property in Montreal and lived upstairs and rented the first floor out to help them live. Victor was born there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Benoist &#8211; Born Dec 31-1884 in Nelson BC and died on May 16, 1965, in Montreal QC Nella Anne Bowen &#8211; Born Nov 16, 1915, in China and died on June 14, 1984, in Toronto ON Frank was a Government Official working in China, and met Nella Bowen in Hong Kong who was at that time working as a&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/benoist.ca\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P90eXT-d","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benoist.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benoist.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benoist.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benoist.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benoist.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/benoist.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514,"href":"https:\/\/benoist.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benoist.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}